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You are free to count them as a failure of the "I'm sticking with my original choice" strategy, but only if you also count them as a failure of the "I'm switching" strategy, because when Monty ruins the game there is no way to win the car by switching to the remaining closed door.

If Monty chooses randomly both strategies fail 2/3 of the time.




Precisely. Either way switch or no switch have the same success rate if Monty ruins the game. You can count it as 1/2 or 2/3 but either way both choices are the same. So it’s a very different scenario from when Monty knows the door is a goat.




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